20/03/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening. Three former dmployees of the security group G4S are to

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face manslaughter charges over the death of a man whilst he was being

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deported from Britain. Jimmx Mubenga, who was 46, died

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three`and`a`half years ago onboard a plane at Heathrow. An inquest found

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he had been unlawfully killdd after being restrained. Kurt Barlhng

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reports. Jimmy Mubenga died of cardio respiratory collapse, where

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the heart stops beating and a person stops breathing, whilst being

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restrained onboard a return flight to his country of origin, Angola, in

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October 2010. Three days after the tragedy, members of Parliamdnt

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called for an enquiry. But by July 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service

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decided there was insufficidnt evidence to prosecute the sdcurity

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guards who had restrained hhm. Yet, almost a year to the day later, in

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July 2013, an inquest jury found on the evidence that Jimmy Mubdnga was

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unlawfully killed. Mr Mubenga was being deported despite his family's

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right to stay in Britain. Stpported by the local community in Ilford

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East London, his wife and fhve children fought for three ydars to

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get an explanation why. In light of the inquest's verdict, the Crown

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Prosecution Service reconsidered the evidence and today said:

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All three former G4S security guards face a charge of manslaughtdr. They

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say they will vigorously defend themselves. G4S, the companx, will

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not face a corporate manslatghter charge after the CPS ruled there was

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insufficient evidence to brhng a criminal charge against the

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business. Mr Mubenga's widow, Adrienne Kambana, said:

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An inquest verdict does not apportion blame to individu`ls. The

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three former employees of G4S will now go before a criminal trhal jury

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who will consider the chargds of unlawful act manslaughter and gross

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negligence manslaughter as `n alternative.

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Cash`strapped, fragmented and unravelling. That's how the NHS in

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London has been described in a new report commissioned by the Tnite

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union. It makes a raft of recommendations, which it claims

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could help save London's NHS. Our Political Correspondent, Karl

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Mercer, has the details. Just two days old and Daniel is getthng to

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meet Daniel. The newcomer and the health minister at Kingston Hospital

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this morning. Little Daniel you would hope unaware that his new

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political friend is here to announce more money for maternity services at

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this hospital and unaware that London's health services once again

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at the centre of a political spat. The union Unite has held a six`month

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enquiry into London's health care. It says the system is under pressure

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and unravelling and raises concerns over maternity units. Women in

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London are often from immigrant backgrounds or poor backgrotnds and

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their background health is poor so they are presenting with more

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problems. And they were concerned about that and they also sahd they

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were concerned with the consultant cover out of hours. It's also

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worried that London may see more of the sort of hospital reorganisations

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that led to protests in Lewhsham and a new body, they say, is nedded to

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oversee health care in the capital. I've worked in the NHS for 25 years

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and, of course, it's always been changing and has to change but

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that's not what these reconfigurations are about. They are

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financially driven, starting with the question how to save money and

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then working backwards from them. If one Daniel is too little to have a

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view, the other is quite cldar on his. What we have seen is, by the

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improvements the government have been put into the NHS, not just

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through additional funding for maternity units like this btt also

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to making sure that these doctors and nurses can make decisions about

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delivering front`line patient care, we are seeing patient care hs

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improving. The government h`s promised the NHS is safe in its

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hands. Today's report raises familiar challenges to that claim.

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Without doubt, is the fact that the NHS will remain at the centre of

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political debate. Almos 400 suspected criminals have bedn

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arrested in raids in the capital today as the Metropolitan Police

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joined forces with nine othdr European countries to target mobile

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phone crime. Almost 45,000 phones have been stolen in London over the

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past year. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith, rdports.

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What we're going to do is check your phones to make sure none of them are

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stolen, OK? Brixton market this morning, Met officers were targeting

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stallholders for stolen mobhle phones. This trader was innocent of

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any wrongdoing. But it wasn't long before the first arrest. Yot are

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going be arrested for this one, all right? We've had previous rdsults

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where we have arrested shop store holders and then done furthdr

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searches and recovered many, many stolen phones. In some cases,

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they've already been shipped in boxes ready to be sent abro`d. Many

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of those phones are destined to north Africa, Asia and the Liddle

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East. Today, the Met is working alongside other forces across

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England and Wales and with nine European countries. It is a global

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phenomenon and one of the things that was driving crime in Ndw York

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for example was mobile phond theft. And that's why there are sole real

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similarities between these lajor global cities. So I don't think

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London is easy pickings at `ll. I think it's becoming increashngly

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hostile. And this is what they're trying to stop. Organised g`ngs

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many from Eastern Europe, t`rgeting Londoners. They've had some success.

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From an average last year of 28 phone stolen a day in the c`pital,

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now it's down to 80. There doesn't seem to be a day that goes by

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without some form of critichsm of the Met, whether that's corruption,

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racism or serious allegations against undercover officers. But

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today, seems to be good news. So far, more than 380 suspects have

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been arrested here in London. News of how many in Europe is sthll

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unknown. Well, it's goodnight from md. I ll

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leave you now with the Sara Thornton who has the weather.

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A chilly night through the night tonight. Elsewhere, some cloud but a

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chilly start tomorrow with of sunshine for all of us but ht's a

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bit of a split in the morning because we have some cloud towards

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the south`east first thing `nd temperatures not quite as cold. Then

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there's plenty of sunshine. The wind picking up tomorrow. And thdn

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eventually it will push somd showers towards us particularly tow`rds

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north and west as we move through the afternoon. 13 Celsius. We will

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do it all again on Saturday. A fairly cool stuff, showers coming

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through and that's fairly cool stuff, showers coming

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through and that's the theme. I will leave you with that summary. Good

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evening. The skies were clear for most parts of the UK and it will

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turn quite cold but we have to get rid of the band of rain slipping its

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way southwards through the day. Gusty wind. Also a temperature

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contrast. 16 degrees in Norwich Five degrees in Stornoway. It is the

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colder air which will win tonight. It will push down across all parts

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and be

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